Such films haven't been seen much since the Clinton administration, except on Lifetime. Bunnies were boiled, innocents were terrorized and lessons were learned about the general scariness of the less fortunate. The protagonists were always attractive yuppies, living the dream until they made the mistake of trusting a psychopath who had designs on their goodies. All their plots could be reduced to a single pungent phrase: "the roommate from hell" ( Single White Female), "the tenant from hell" ( Pacific Heights), "the nanny from hell" ( The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). In the 1990s, moviegoers flocked to a string of glossy thrillers that one critic of the era memorably dubbed the "from hell" genre.
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